【推荐2】Nikenson's dad died when he was 3, and his mom often couldn't afford his school fees, so he got kicked out of school sometimes. But Nickenson would steal back onto the school grounds and stand outside the open classroom windows to listen, day after day. He studied on his own, keeping pace so that when his mom earned a rew aoliars, he cloud enter the classroom again.

Against all difficulties，Nikenson graduated from high school this year, first in his class, with straight A's,and was electea class president. Nikenson is a reminder of the basic saying of life today:gift is universal, but opportunity is not.

Luckily, with the help of some American people Nikenson is now receiving a university education.He 's benefiting from a program started by Bohan, a young American who is teaching in a Haitian high school. Bohan asked his family and friends to help other Haitians go to college. The progran grew and became the Haitian Education and Leadership Program,HELP, sending hundreds of young men andwomen to Haitian universities.

"Education works." Bohan said simply."Good education works for everybody, everywhere. Itworks for you, for me, and it works for Haitians. Over time, I've concluded that education may be thesingle best way to help themselves, whether in America or abroad. Yet, we don't put enough money ineducation. So we shall express our thanks to those who spread the gift of education."

One clever new high school graduate, Eric, was working as a worker in a village and earning just $50 a month. HELP sent him to college to study industrial engineering, and he just graduated and found a job at a European company as an engineer for $1, 500 a month."The only difference is his access to education." said Bohan.

1. Why was Nikenson not allowed to enter the classroom sometimes?

A．Because his father died at an early age.

B．Because he often stole something in the school.

C．Because his family was too poor to afford school fees.

D．Because he liked standing outside the classroom windows.

2. What's the purpose of Bohan's starting HELP?

A．To collect money for poor Americans.

B．To build more high schools in Haiti.

C．To send poor students to study abroad.

D．To help Haitians receive university education.

3. According to the passage, which of the following would Bohan probably agree with?

A．Everyone should work for good education.

B．Education can make a big difference to one's life.

C．More people willspreadsthe gift of education soon.

D．Eric ought to be one of the HELP's members.

【推荐3】In March 2019, when Sara Cook first got a letter telling her that someone had paid off a part of her medical debt, she thought it was fake. “It seems like one of those e-mails you get saying you have a long-lost uncle and you’ve just inherited two million dollars.” Cook says. Cook called the number listed on the letter and what she learned was that this was not a scam.

A remarkable nonprofit organization called RIP Medical Debt had paid $ 5,000 towards her bills. RIP buys medical debts directly from hospitals at a steep discount, usually paying only a few pennies to retire each dollar of debt. Since 2014, it is estimated that they’ve spent only about $20 million to pay off nearly $1 billion in personal debts. Antic and Ashton, the founders, get their money from individuals and charities that support RIP’s mission. The $5,000 to pay off Cook’s bill was donated by a church in Michigan, which in 2019 raised $53,000, paying off $5 million in debt owed by thousands of people.

Don't bother contacting RIP for help, however. Now, RIP researches potential recipients (接受者) based on three criteria. First, they look for people who make no more than 2.5 times the amount established as the federal poverty level. Then they seek for those whose debt is equal to 5 percent or more of their total income. Third, they look to see whether a person is bankrupt.

For those who do qualify, RIP’s help is life-altering. “After their letter, I realized that my life really wasn’t that awful,” says Cook, who shares her story with anyone who has the willingness to listen. “I may be deprived of the chance to work as a nurse again, but I can sit at the school library and help kid read or serve up food in the soup kitchen. When people do something out of the kindness of their hearts, sometimes they may wonder whether it really makes a difference. I want people to know that this indeed has a positive impact.”

1. What does the underlined word “scam” probably mean?

A．Payment.	B．Cheat.
C．Reward.	D．Letter.

2. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．Why RIP performs the act of paying off medical debt.

B．Where RIP gets the money for the kindness.

C．How much RIP has paid for people’s medical debt.

D．How RIP carries out the act of paying off people’s debt.

3. Who are more likely to be the potential recipients of RIP?

A．Those who support RIP’s mission.	B．Those who struggle financially.
C．Those who contact RIP actively.	D．Those who get deadly diseases.

4. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Goodbye, My Medical Debt	B．A Remarkable Organization
C．Cook, a Nurse of Misfortune	D．Antic and Ashton’s Kindness

【推荐1】If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.

When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.

If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to be blamed (责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault.

Have you ever found that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write and they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is the whole time being exercised. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people: practice remembering.

1. Which of the following is right?

A．Your arms or your legs will become weak when you use them.

B．Your memory works in the same way as your arms and legs.

C．Everybody knows that memory works in the same way as their arms and legs.

D．Your memory can’t become strong again when you use them again.

2. If you want to have a good memory, you must________.

A．practice it

B．not give it enough chance to become strong

C．have clever parents

D．use your arms and legs often

3. One has a bad memory because of ________.

A．his teachers’ fault	B．his parents’ fault
C．his own fault	D．his strong arms and legs

4. Many people who can’t read and write can remember things well because________.

A．they have to remember everything	B．they can’t write them down
C．they practice remembering	D．they can remember things quickly

5. The writer tells us ________.

A．how to remember days, names and songs

B．a good memory needs strong arms and legs

C．a good memory comes from practice

D．parents can make us clever

【推荐2】Where Are We Going, Dad? presents a new generation of men, in a break from Chinese tradition, now take an active role in their children’s lives.
Five star fathers and their children travel around China, riding camels through the western deserts, fishing off the east coast, and selling vegetables for their bus fare home in southwestern Yunnan province. One dad doesn’t know how to do his daughter’s hair, but give him a couple of days — he’ll figure it out. Another one must survive with his son for three days in the desert, where, because neither can cook, the two only eat instant noodles.
These story lines are part of Where Are We Going, Dad? which, since its first show in October, has become one of China’s most popular television shows, covering more than 600 million viewers each week. And searches for Where Are We Going, Dad? turn up over 40 million hits on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter.
“In traditional Chinese culture, the common conception of parenthood is that the father is strict and the mother is kind. But on the show, we see fathers who are much gentler on their kids and more concerned with their upbringing,” said Li Minyi, an associate professor of early childhood education at the leading Beijing Normal University. “An important question arises in this show for modern Chinese society — what is the role of fathers in today’s China?”
“As they raise their children, parents are growing up at the same time,” said Wang Renping, a popular education expert. “They cannot use parenting styles from 20 years ago to guide the development of children born 20 years later.”
The attraction of Where Are We Going, Dad? lies in the chance to have a close look at the lives of popular Chinese stars and their children. Audiences like watching the failed attempts of star dads making dinner, braiding hair(编头发), and disciplining children — tasks often left to mothers in a society still influenced by the opinion that “men rule outside and women rule inside.”
1. From the passage, we can draw a conclusion that Where Are We Going, Dad? is _____.

A．a match	B．a novel
C．a TV show	D．a news report

2. In Where Are We Going, Dad? we can probably learn about _____.

A．how the fathers do housework at home

B．how the children study in their spare time

C．how the fathers look after and guide their children

D．how the children and their father travel around China

3. We can know from the passage that_____.

A．In modern society, men should not care too much about their kids

B．Where Are We Going, Dad? has the most number of viewers in China

C．In Chinese tradition, fathers always play an active part in their children’s lives

D．While they bring up their children, parents are improving their parenting styles

4. The reason why Where Are We Going, Dad? is so popular in China may include the following   EXCEPT that _____.

A．audiences enjoy laughing at others’ failure in life

B．it can make people laugh and think at the same time

C．people love watching the stars and their children’s lives closely

D．it presents a new generation of men’s role in their children’s lives

【推荐3】Welcome. You have just entered the largest online museum on the Internet. A work in progress, steadily expanding with thousands of high quality images of the greatest paintings and sculpture in history, the Art Renewal Center is building an encyclopedic collection of essays, biographies and articles by top scholars in the field.
ARC is the Eye of the Storm, at the core, hub and center of a major cultural shift in the art world. With a growing body of experts, we are setting standards to become ARC Approved for artists, art schools, systems of training, museum exhibitions and historical scholarship, to bring guidance, direction, goals and reality to an art establishment that has been sailing rudderless(无领导者的) for nearly a hundred years.
Additionally, the Art Renewal Center is a non-profit educational organization committed to refreshing standards of craftsmanship and excellence. Only by gaining a full command of the skills of the past masters can we create the masters of tomorrow. This is a step forward for our culture. Experimentation and creativity can only succeed and prosper(使……繁荣) when built on a solid foundation of past accomplishments, with the tools which can make artists realize their visions.
Nothing has been more restricting(有限制的) and weakening than the theories of modernism, which got rid of these tools, along with the skills to employ them. We are providing a forum for artists, scholars, collectors and the public to appreciate great art, and to recognize that they’re not alone in their doubts about the emptiness of modern and postmodern art. These doubts are fully justified by the overwhelming(压倒的) body of evidence and historical facts.
1. Where does this passage come from?
A newspaper of art

A．A textbook	B．A magazine
C．A website

2. What can we infer from the 2^ndparagraph?

A．ARC has brought guidance, direction for art schools, systems of training.

B．ARC is the Eye of the Storm of the art and museum.

C．Some arts establishment have been aimless for nearly a century.

D．ARC has employed many experts for their exhibition.

3. How shall we do to produce tomorrow experts?

A．To lay a solid foundation for the tomorrow masters.

B．To make refreshing standards of craftsmanship and excellence.

C．To obtain a good knowledge of the past experts’ skills.

D．To accept the non-profit educational organization.

4. What’s the purpose of the forum for artists, scholars, collectors and the public?

A．To get the information of great arts all over the world.

B．To help evaluate great arts and encourage to develop modern arts.

C．To show the doubts of the public and resist the exhibition.

D．To offer enough room to complain about what they are dissatisfied with.